1922: Conservative liberals, remnants of the Historical Right (Destra Storica), by then called Liberal-Conservatives (Liberal-Conservatori), and members of Giovanni Giolitti's Liberal Left (Sinistra Liberale), which until then acted only as parliamentary factions nor as organised parties, formed the Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)

1926: The party was banned

1943: Renmants of the old liberal current organised themselves in the conservative-liberal Italian Liberal Party (Partito Liberale Italiano, PLI)

2002: The Democrats joined Italian Renewal and the Christian-democratic Italian People's Party to form Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy (Democrazia è Libertà - La Margherita), a combination of centrists, liberals, and Christian democrats.

2012: Key members of the Alliance for Italy form Democratic Centre (Centro Democratico) to contest the 2013 general election as part of the Italy. Common Good centre-left coalition with the Democratic Party.

2013: On 4 January, Civic Choice (Scelta Civica) was launched an electoral list in support of Mario Monti, the incumbent non-partisan technocrat Prime Minister, to contest the 2013 general election. The partly-list included liberal think-tank Future Italy (Italia Futura), with Civic Choice itself the core of electoral alliance With Monti for Italy (Con Monti per l'Italia).